Cardamon treated tobacco



Patented Aug. 31, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIQE CARDAMON TREATED TOBACCO Fred Bane, Pulaski, Va.

No Drawing. Application December 16, 1935, Serial No. 54,783

3 Claims. (Cl. 167-54) The object of this invention is to provide a substances, the breath being free of the odor of ove Compound embodying tobacco and cardasuch substances, and also free of the odor of mon, particularly the essential oil of cardamon. tobacco or the odor of the cardamon itself. The with a view to purifying the human breath and cardamon, combined with the tobacco, produces 5 doing y With the Odors O Strong drink, a new result, not described in the prior art, so

and rank vegetables such as onions or garlic, in far as I am advised as to its extent.

the breath, the tobacco odor being killed also, and In preparing tobacco for use as a cleanser of the breath being void of taint, Whether of alcohol, the breath, care should be taken to avoid the use vegetables and the like, or the cardamon itself. of such essential oils as bergamot, cassia, cloves It is within the province of the disclosure to and similar spices, or geranium. Such essential improve generally and to enhance the utility of oils, although alleged to have some value in probreath purifiers of the general kind described in moting coolness in smoking, will not replace this application. cardamon and tobacco as a means for purging In the preferred practical operation, essential the breath of the odors hereinbefore referred to.

oil of cardamon, in amount approximating one The preferred product consists solely of tobacco fluid ounce, is sprayed on tobacco, either in leaf and cardamon, the tobacco being the greatly preform, or broken up, approximately fifty pounds of ponderating ingredient.

tobacco being alloted to one fluid ounce of essen- Having thus described the invention, what is tial oil of cardamon. This process may take claimed is: place before the mechanical preparation of the 1. A composition for ridding the breath of tobacco for smokers use whether that preparaodors, comprising smoking tobacco sprayed with tion leaves the tobacco in a divided form or in the essential oil of cardamon. leaf form. 2. The method of preparing tobacco for smok- The resulting product is a treated tobacco, ing, to kill odors in the breath, which consists in either divided somewhat finely, in leaf form or spraying approximately fifty pounds of tobacco shaped into a cigar, stogie, cigarette or the like, with approximately one ounce of essential oil of described generally as an article adapted to be cardamon. carried in the mouth and smoked. 3. A composition of matter for deodorizing the When a cigar or cigarette or other similar arbreath, comprising smoking tobacco and cardaticle, or loose tobacco treated as described, is mon, the latter being uniformly distributed smoked, the cardamon and tobacco serve to kill throughout the tobacco. the odor of alcohol, strong vegetables, and other FRED BANE. 

